Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. In this film, Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around the atmospheric Shinjuku neighborhood, his home…
40 inspiring photography quotes from Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado. Sebastião Salgado is a Documentary Photographer and Photo Journalist from Brazil. He was born on 08th February 1944 in Aimores, Brazil. When we think of photographer Sebastião Salgado, what comes to mind are the words “humanitarian”, “humanist”, and “concerned photographer”.…
Don Hong-Oai was born in Canton, China in 1929. He did spend most of his life time in Vietnam though. In his earlier days on Photography, Don did take a apprenticeship in a local photo studio. He normally did shoot lots of landscape photographs whenever he found leisure time at…
Yousuf Karsh (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. Yousuf or Josuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep) Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He…
Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is a street photographer, and portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In…
Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a Russian Photographer who is also a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos. It was during his teens, when his interest towards photography became much more extreme which made him get enrolled with the Moscow Institute of Cinematography. This was more than a starting point for Pinkhassov…
Nick Brandt is an interesting person, a phenomenal wildlife photographer who believes in a simple term “Fail again but fail better”. This is so unique about his role as a photographer to server what is left behind in terms of animal population with this vast world. His encounters and the…
Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, our master photographer Saul Leiter started getting into art in his late teens. Initially, he pursued to do some painting, later his new friendship with fellow master photographer W.Eugene Smith and Richard Pousette-Dart pulled him into the art of photography. Colors at their finest best,…
Bruno Barbey, one of the member and once the vice-president for Magnum foundation Europe is known for his expeditions as a photographer capturing strong images across 5 major continents and numerous conflicts around the world. This post of ours would describe much further on his works plus some key-points on…
Josef Koudelka was Czech photographer born in 1938 in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia. He started photographing his family and the surroundings with Bakelite camera. He finished his engineering and worked as aeronautical engineer. Later, he began taking commission work from theater magazines. In 1967, he decided full-time work as a photographer. He…
Here is the Part 4 of amazing black and white photos from masters. Please check our previous articles here: Great Black and White Photos – Part1 Great Black and White Photos – Part2 Great Black and White Photos – Part3 Great Black and White Photos – Part4 Great Black and…
Vivian Dorothea Maier, was an interesting street photographer born in New york city. Earlier she did grow up in France but later returned to United states. During this period she worked as a Nanny in Chicago and it was during these days she shot almost more than 100,000 photographs. These…
Piergiorgio Branzi is an Italian journalist and photographer born in 1928. He started photography in the fifties, he traveled extensively in Italy, particularly in the south. Feel the unusual elements of momentary everyday life through the vision of such a gifted photographer. © Piergiorgio Branzi Biography: Raised in Florence ,…
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. © Dorothea Lange Before she…
Édouard Boubat was born in Paris and he studies typography and graphic arts at Ecole Estienne. He worked for a prnting company before becoming a photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travali obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed the horrors of World…
Shirley Baker (1932 – 2014) is a wonderful master photographer whose work gained immense recognition in the early 70’s. Most of her work was photographed during the demolition of slums in the Manchester and Salford regions. Shirley says that the areas housing was really substandard during that time and nobody…